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The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
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Photodynamic Therapy

1.        Allison RR, Bagnato VS, Cuenca R, Downie GH, Sibata CH. The future of photodynamic therapy in oncology. Future Oncol. 2006 Feb;2(1):53-71.
2.        Bonnerup C, Evans M, Johnke R, Allison, R. Optimizing photodynamic therapy for melanoma. American Radium Society, Maui, Hawaii, 2006.
3.        Bonnerup C, Sibata C, Allison R. Photodynamic therapy for bladder cancer - optimizing dosimetry as a means to improve outcome. American Radium Society, Maui, Hawaii, 2006.
4.        Cuenca RE, Sibata CH, Bonnerup CA, Allison RR, Downie GH. Evaluation of green light point spectroscopy for the detection of photosensitizer during photodynamic therapy. Society of Surgical Oncology 59th Annual Cancer Symposium, San Diego, CA., March 2006.
5.        Bonnerup CA, Johnke RM, Sibata CH, Allison R. Electrical impedance spectroscopy/tomography as a dosimetric tool during photodynamic therapy. American Society Lasers Medicine Surgery Annual Meeting, Boston, MA., April, 2006.
6.        Gallaher JA, Bonnerup CA, Allison RR, Sibata CH. Fluorescence response quantification of PHOTOFRIN® concentration in optical phantoms. American Society Lasers Medicine Surgery Annual Meeting, Boston, MA., April, 2006.
7.        C. Kurachi, J. Ferreira, C.H. Sibata, C. Bonnerup, R. R. Allison, V.S. Bagnato. Photodegradation of three derivatives of hematoporphyrin: Photofrin®, Photogem® and Photosan®. 10th Brazilian Congress on Medical Physics, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, May 2005.
8.        C. Bonnerup, C. Sibata, R.R. Allison. Laser rangefinder for automatic SSD measurement and inter-fraction patient movement monitoring. AAPM 47th Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 2005.
9.        C. Sibata, C. Bonnerup, R. R. Allison. Mapping the optical flux density of sources used in photodynamic therapy: digital imaging and application to quality assurance. 25th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS), Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 2005.
10.        Allison RR, Sibata C, Downie GH, Cuenca RE: Photodynamic Therapy of the Intact Breast, Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, accepted March 2006.
11.        Allison RR, Downie GH, Cuenca R, Sibata CH: A brief review of photodynamic therapy in oncology.  Amer. J of Oncology Review, 2006, 5(2), 111-117.
12.        Allison RR, Bagnato VS, Cuenca R, Downie GH and Sibata CH: The future of photodynamic therapy in oncology. Future Oncology., 2006, 2(1), 53-71.
13.        Bagnato VS, Kurachi C, Ferreira J, Marcassa LG, Sibata CH and Allison RR: PDT Experience in Brazil: a regional profile. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, 2(2), 107- 118.
14.        Allison, RR, Cuenca, R., Downie, GH, Camnitz, P., Brodish, B., Sibata, CH: Clinical photodynamic therapy of head and neck cancers - a review of applications and outcomes. Accepted in Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, July 2005.
15.        Ferreira J, Kurachi C, Moriyama LT, Menezes PFC, Perussi JR, Sibata C, Zucoloto S, Castro e Silva Jr. O and Bagnato VS: Correlation between the photostability and photodynamic efficacy for different photosensitizers. Laser Phys. Lett. Accepted for publication, September, 2005.
16.        Rodriguez-Mora, O. LaHair M, Evans MJ, Kovacs CJ, Allison RR, Sibata CH, White KS, McCubrey JA, Franklyn RA: Inhibition of the CaM-Kinases Sensitizes MCF-7 Human Breast Cancer Cells to Treatment with Doxorubicin, Irradiation and Photodynamic Therapy. Accepted by Cancer Research, July 2005.
17.        Qureshi A, Lowen G, Cuenca R, Allison R, Sibata C, Downie G: Endoscopic ablation of typical carcinoid tumor with photodynamic therapy. Accepted by Chest, July 2005.
18.        Hu XH, Feng Y, Lu JQ, Allison R, Cuenca R, Downie G, Sibata C: Modeling of type II photodynamic therapy process in a heterogeneous tissue phantom. Accepted by Photochem.  Photobiol. June 2005.
19.        Allison RR, Cuenca R, Downie GH, Randall ME, Bagnato VS and Sibata CH: PD/PDT in Gynecological Disease: A Clinical Review. Accepted in Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, March 2005.
20.        Allison RR, Mota HC, and Sibata CH: Clinical History of PDT in North America: An Historical Overview. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, 1, 2005:263-277.
21.        X.H. Hu, Y.M. Feng, J.Q. Lu, R. Allison, C. Sibata, R. Cuenca, G.H. Downie,   Modeling of  type II photodynamic therapy process in a heterogeneous tissue phantom,   Accepted in Photochem Photobiol. June 2005.




IGRT

1.        Allison RR, Gay HA, Mota HC, Sibata CH. Image-guided radiation therapy: current and future directions. Future Oncol. 2006 Aug;2(4):477-92.
2.        Jenkins T, Bonnerup C, et al.: "Optimized image-guided radiation therapy protocol for the prostate." European Journal of Cancer Supplements (Proceedings from ECCO 16-Paris, France),2005, 3(2) 235.


Physics

1.        de Souza CN, Sibata CH, Caldas LVE: Evaluation of the depth ratio and backscattering-factor methods in quality control measures of electron beam energies.. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2005, 63, 217-222.
2.        Feng Y, Allison R, Hu XH, Mota H, Jenkins T, Wolfe W, Sibata C: "An Ultrasonic Device for Source to Skin Surface Distance Measurement in Patient Setup", Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2005, 61-1587-1589.



Radiobiology

1.        Cariveaua, MJ, Kalmus GW, Allison RR, Evans M, Holbert D: "Correlations between Radiation-induced Double Strand Breaks and Cell Cycle Checkpoints in X-irradiated NIH/3T3 Fibroblasts". Anticancer Research 2006, 26:311-3316.
2.        Lee T, Allison RR, O'Brien KF, Johnke TM, Wang W: "Radioprotective Effect of North American Ginseng Extract on Human Lymphocytes". Inter. J. Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2006, 66(3), 2681.

3.        Rodriguez-Mora OG, Lahair MM, Evans MJ, Kovacs CJ, Allison RR, Sibata CH, White KS, McCubrey JA, Franklin RA. Inhibition of the CaM-kinases augments cell death in response to oxygen radicals and oxygen radical inducing cancer therapies in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells. Cancer Biol Ther. 2006 Aug;5(8):1022-30. Epub 2006 Aug 18.
4.        Lee TK, Johnke RM, Allison RR, O'Brien KF, Dobbs LJ, "Radioprotective potential of ginseng", Mutagenesis 2005, 20:237-243.
5.        Lee TK, Allison RR, O'Brien KF, Johnke RM, Wiley AL, Karlsson Jr. UL, "Radiation morbidity in cancer patients may be predicted by the micronucleus assay", Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005, S486-S489.
6.        Cariveau MJ, Kovacs CJ, Allison R, Johnke RM. The temporal expression of p21/WAF-1 and the G2/M damage checkpoint protein cyclin B1 are density dependent growth regulators and medicate mitotic delay in the x-irradiated NIH3T3 fibroblasts. Anticancer Research, 25: 1123-1130, 2005.
7.        Johnke RM, Edwards JM, Kovacs CJ, Evans MJ, Daly BM,  Karlsson UL, Lee TK, Allison RR, Arastu HH, Cariveau MJ, O'Brien KF.  Response of T lymphocyte populations in prostate cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy: influence of neoadjuvant total androgen suppression. Anticancer Research, 25:3159-3166, 2005.
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